[erlang-bugs] Latin-1 source code compatibility bug

[Magnus Henoch]

Anthony Ramine <n.oxyde@REDACTED> writes:

> Is that even supposed to work now that UTF-8 is the default?

The README file for 17.0 says:

   OTP-11791  The default encoding for Erlang source files is now UTF-8. As
	      a temporary measure to ease the transition from the old
	      default of latin-1, if the compiler encounters byte sequences
	      that are not valid UTF-8 sequences, the compiler will re-try
	      the compilation in latin-1 mode. This workaround will be
	      removed in a future release.

It seems like the compiler doesn't retry using latin-1 in this case.

(For the record, the file in question compiles without problems if you
put "%% -*- coding: latin-1 -*-" as the first line.)

Regards,
Magnus